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Show To the Reader. res Sacred Peron, andto the World, what Advifes 1 have triceived from others, obferved myfelf, and moft Induf .as one oufly Colleéied from a ftudious propenfity to ferve Hus our of of the leaft Intelligences in the ampler Orb f= Sriows Society, and in a Work fo Important and Nece fary. Amico chariflimo fobanni Evelyno Artnigero, t Societate Regali Londini, J. Beale; S. P. D. In Sylvam. Are age quid caufe eft quodtu Sylveftria pangis, Inter Sylvanos, capripedefque Deos ? Inter HamadryadasLetus, Dryadafquepudicas, Cum tuaCyrrheis fit Chelys apta madis ! Scilicet boc cecinit numerofws Horatius olia, BOOKS Publith'd by the Author of this Difcourfe. The French Gardner ll, Edition: =; Fumi-fuginwe, or a Prophetic Invettive againtt the Smoke of London: *. Sylua, or aDifcourfe of Foreft-Trees, &c. the II, Edition, very much Improvd, Fol. Kalendarinm Hortenfe, bothin Fol. and Offavo, the Ill. Edition, much dagmented. Sculptura, or the Hiflory of Chalcography.and Engraving in Copper, the Original and Progreffe of that Art, &c, Ofavo. The Parallel of Archite@ure, being an Account of Tex famous Architeés, witha Difcourfe of the Tearms, and a Treatife of Statues: Fol. The Idea ofthe Perfection of Painting: OGava, Scriptorum Sylvam quod Chorus Omnis amat. ES locus ille Sacer Mufis,@ Apolline dignus, Prima dedit Summo Templa Sacranda Jovi. Hinc quoque nunc Pontem Pontus non refpuit ingens, Stringitur Oceanus,corripiturque Salum. Hine nowus Helperiis emerfit mundus in oria, Effuditque auri fluminalarga probi. Hinc exundavit diflento Copia cornu, Qualem ty Amalthez non habuere finus. Sylva tibi cure ef}, gratate Pomonarefiindit Auriferum, rofeum, purpureumque nemus. Illa famemquefitimque abigens expirat odores, Quales nec Medus, nec tibi mittit Arabs. Ambrofiamprabent modo cofta Cydonia, Zantum Comprime, Neéiareo pomaliquore fluunt. Progredere, O Scecli Cultor memorandefuturi, Felix Horticolam fre imitere Deum. Nobiliffimo Gin tues |